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Noun: Xanthium
  1. Coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles
    - genus Xanthium

Type of: asterid dicot genus

Part of: aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae

Encyclopedia: Xanthium